To the Reader. 



yil i fo, eloquent Sandys •, fo, Malvezzi's Noble fnccipre- 

 ter i with vphom conferred I a»thfs than a pjadoxp : So, ma-' 

 ^2) able and eminent names of France and Italy , and other 

 Nations ; So the Ancients of former Ages and of aU ArgU" 

 ments. • But if any he fo folemn , fo feifere , and of fnch 

 primitive tafles^ they can arvay with no tvafers, which come 

 not from the fpriug-head'-, nor endure to drinl{^af Tiber ^ 

 that pajfes through Thames ; They may fikte ozier here, if 

 they fo pleafej and proceed no farther. This interpr^atioK 

 TPas tjot meant for fiich faUidioii<s palates^ andyet^ it m^be^ 

 for as difiingiiiJJnn^ as theirs are. Nom if this vcryrdBfr 

 on be thm liable to exception, much more niuji my perfoh 

 7»ance be. Certainly boo1\s by Trzndadon €ommonfy^ t^l^ 

 wind in the effufion j and for flrength fall jhort of their O- 

 riginals-, as re flexed beams are tpeak^er than direSi : but 

 then it mufi be underjiood of Originals , truly fo. For if 

 a Writer delii/er himfelf out of his Kati've Language, I 

 fee not why a Tranflator rendring him in it, may not come 

 near him : and in this cafe , the Author himfelf is the In" 

 terpreter, being he tranflates his own thoughts, which ori- 

 ginally fpeah^his mother tongue. Yet for all this. Error i 

 I kftow there are, andfome lapjes , which require a con- 

 ni'vence ) and a Reader hath this adz^antage, that he may 

 flay upon one period-,as long as an Interpreter did on one page; 

 befidex his peculiar Genius to fom'e fludied pajfages. Some 

 Errors (pajpng but a trafient eye upon what is done^ I fee 

 already , and could note them j but I would not willingly 

 gratife fome kjnd of Readers fo far. They that are Ju- 

 ditioHs aa-d Ingenious too (for I would ha've no Readers that 

 ha<ve not ^hefe two ingredients in their compofitions, though 

 fometimes I name but one , which 1 woidd then, ffjoidd be 

 predominant) ivill in their judgement fnd them, and in their 

 mercy pardon them. As for Sophifts ^w;/ Satyrifts, a dege- 

 nerate Race of men , that fit upon the li'ves and learning 

 of all that write '-, who refol'v'd to do nothing themfelvesj 

 viay with maxe fc cur iiy cejjfure.jilhsrs : and them top, who, 

 as Learned Don deciphers them , forbid not books , but 

 men", damning what ever fuch a name, hath, or /hall 

 write : they are things below the merit of my indignation j 

 objeBs of fcorn -^ which a little flighted, and not inflatned 



